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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I tried doing an nfs and when it went to go and install the packages it threw up an error and booted me back to the screen. If there is a way can you kindly tell me or perhaps direct me to a how to? I'm trying to put it on a armada 7400 laptop with no cdrom.

I'm having the same problem. I have both an ftp server and a smbclient running with the slack cd's. I'm trying to install onto my laptop. When I go to do an nfs install. It just throws me back to the main screen and to the first selection which is help. I don't see an error and I don't know where error logs would be kept if the system isn't installed anywhere.

I installed Slack 9.1 on a laptop without built in drives a few days ago. But I had a WinXp on it ... and USB Cd-Rom.

This is what you can do .... and what I tried:

1. boot from cd-rom, Slack didn't recognize the source drive (no kernel usb support)
2. copied 1st ISO file from windows on a FAT partition, mounted it as a loop device, but Slack still didn't want to boot
3. installed Debian base system from mounted ISO files, made a new 2.6.r11 kernel with buit-in USB support in debian.... put it in Slackware ISO file, burn it again, and installed from USB drive

could you boot off the slack cd and get to the setup? if you can get that far there is a much easier way to do it. just boot off some boot disk make a partition on the harddrive and copy the slackware directories from both cd1 and cd2 to that partition and when you get into setup just go through like normal and after you setup your partitions it will ask you where you want to install from ie nfs cdrom harddrive ... choose harddrive it will ask which partition to install from and tell it and proceed like normal.

im sorry for the network install i ve never had the pleasure to commit it.
perhaps you have to specify the subfolder of the cd: /slackware/
like when you can plug another hard drive:

put all the FILES of the slack cd in subfolder of a fat32 partition ex.: c:/slackware
boot the cd
do the cfdisk job without touching at the fat32 partition ^^
---------note the id of the fat32 drive ex.: /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdd2 or......
run the setup normally
the setup will detect the fat32 and said the changes wont apply until reboot: no matter.
after that you have to choose the installation source. Choose hard disk partition
give the drive id
you have to specify the subfolder: /slackware
this folder u can see it when u make the step 1
read this bestseller: http://slackware.com/install/